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to accompany us on our journey to the Great River, 
The other two went off with the food we had given 
them for their father; they carried along with them 
pieces of hghted wood to frighten away lions. Travelled 
N.E. by N. 
2 1 St. The frost was so keen during the night, that 
water in the bottom of a large dish which stood in the 
open air was completely frozen. The Bushman's 
family came to us at eight in the morning, consisting 
of the father, his two sons, with the wife of one 
carrying a child about ten months old. When we 
went to prayer, (the nature of which had been ex- 
plained to them,) they lay prostrate on the ground, in 
imitation of our Hottentots. The woman had rather 
an interesting appearance ; her eyes indicated natural 
talent, and her child looked well, notwithstanding its 
copper colour. She gave me three rings, made of cord, 
which her child wore on its arm, and I presented her 
with some beads to put in their place. The child wore 
nothing more than a few strings of benies, as substi- 
tutes for beads, interspersed with circular pieces of 
the ostrich egg. When preparing to shave, Theld my 
looking-glass before each of them. All expressed as- 
tonishment at beholding their faces, which they knew 
to be their Own, by opening their mouths wide, and 
holding out their tongues, which they perceived to be 
done at the same time by the figure in the glass. They 
all turned away their heads, and held up their hands 
before their mouths when they first saw themselves, as 
if disgusted with the sight. The woinan, in order to 
